Good choices for an advanced user. They are not for newbies. Linux Mint is not much different from Ubuntu. It is not worth re-installing for. You can even add the Mint features via PPA to Ubuntu and get Mate, MGSE without much effort. The problem for people used to Ubuntu and switching to Mint is that it has not upgrade tool. so if you are used to upgrading then Mint is not for you. Clem and the Mint team deserve much credit for making Mint 12 an exciting release. If you are installing a new distro or are not averse to re-installing it is a good choice.
See: http://www.howtoforge.com/install-gnome-3-with-mint-gnome-shell-extensions-or-mate-on-ubuntu-11.10-oneiric-ocelot Linux Mint is a GNOME 3 distro just like Ubuntu. One uses GNOME Shell and the other uses Unity as a shell, but you can install GNOME Shell. If you do not like Unity, you probably won't like GNOME Shell and Mate is not stable yet. It would be wiser to switch to XFCE in Ubuntu than switch to Mint for Mate, if you want the old desktop metaphor. It is a waiting game and race now as to who can deliver the goods. GNOME Shell is betting on its extensions library. Ubuntu is betting on its lenses and scopes and PPAs. Both are trying to make it more configurable. Mint is betting on its MGSE and Mate. You get the most flexibility with Ubuntu. You can run any desktop that you want. The same cannot be said about any other distro including Mint. Some people are clearly frustrated, but most are adapting. There is no compelling reason to switch with an LTS coming up in April, IMO. You may be jumping the gun and regret it. https://extensions.gnome.org/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Lenses Roy Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 8 December 2011 09:21, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not one of them, but there seems to be a huge flock of people to Linux > Mint. I see tons of blog reviews and Google+ postings about it. I personally > have moved from Mandriva to Arch Linux on my desktop and ArchBang on my > lappy. > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.six > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 07:10, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have tried openSuSE 12.1. There are pluses and minuses for an Ubuntu >> user. OpenSuSE has GNOME Shell 3.2 which is available for Ubuntu and >> KDE 4.7.3, same as Kubuntu. Those are neither pluses nor minuses, but >> show that your desktop environment should not dictate your move. >> Rather you need to choose based on community, support, available >> packages, package management, etc. >> >> OpenSuSE is one of the premier implementations of Btrfs. It is the >> default file system. KDE is the default desktop, but you can choose >> GNOME, XFCE or LXDE versions. Btrfs is more complicated to setup, but >> it has a nice feature to do snapshots and rollbacks. It has something >> called Snapper to enable this. OpenSusE also features something called >> Tumbleweed that in effect can change it to a rolling release. >> >> OpenSuSE 12.1 has some exciting features, but on the downside is that >> it is an unfamiliar package management system for Ubuntu users (rpm >> and Yast). It can be tricky to run for newbies. There is a bit of a >> learning curve that you should be prepared for. It can become unstable >> quickly if you do not know what you are doing, in my experience. >> Support is good, but not as good as Ubuntu. The community is much >> smaller. You also have smaller repositories and lose PPAs. >> >> As with all distros it comes down to choice and what you expect and want. >> >> Roy >> >> Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit >> Location: Canada >> >> >> >> On 7 December 2011 21:59, Kari <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Actually I was thinking the same thing. I haven't looked outside of >> > Ubuntu >> > in quite a while -- it is time to try something new. OpenSuSE would be >> > fun >> > to try. >> > >> > And I think the group is just quiet. >> > >> > ~kari >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ben Chavez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Did the group got quiet or am I exclude from receiving mail from it? >> >> Has >> >> anyone tried the new OpenSuSE release yet? I think it is the 12.1 >> >> release. I >> >> have been thinking on get away from Ubuntu after 3 years using it so I >> >> am >> >> thinking on an rpm base distro just to learn something different. >> >> LinuxMint which is ranking up high I think is just second after Ubuntu >> >> it >> >> is actually a derivative from ubuntu so installing that it wont get me >> >> much >> >> far from ubuntu. >> >> Take care and happy hollidays! >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> >> Group. >> >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> For more options, visit our group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> >> >> >> Please remember to abide by our list rules >> >> (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules >> >> or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Kari Matthews >> > o: 630.457.1600 >> > c: 630.448.0865 >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> > Group. >> > To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > For more options, visit our group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules >> > or >> > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules >> or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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